Fedora and Cross Compiling

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Wed Jun 13 09:19:08 UTC 2007


Andrew Haley wrote:
> Hans de Goede writes:
>  > Andy Green wrote:
>  > > Hans de Goede wrote:
>  > > 
>  > >> You don't get my objectino, I'm crossing from Fedora but not too Fedora,
>  > >> therefore what is in Fedora's specfile is completely irrelevant. Extreme
>  > >> example, the sdcc cross-compiler already in Fedora. This crosses from
>  > >> Fedora to 8051 (and other) microcontrollers. It uses its own assembler
>  > >> and is its own C-compiler, binutils and gcc are not used at all (except
>  > >> for building the asm / compiler themselves, duh). Should the sdcc
>  > >> specfile be a pathc on top of gcc's specfile, a patch effectively
>  > >> replacing 100% of it, just because its a c-compiler too?
>  > > 
>  > > Should Fedora packages have to deal with it at all "just because its a
>  > > c-compiler too?"  I think the scenario of striving to be able to build
>  > > glibc for 8051 on sdcc needs to be triaged into a different discussion.
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > I'm not talking about building glibc for 8051 (that would be kinda hard as an 
>  > average 8051 comes with 256 bytes of ram, and no I didn't forget an K or M there).
> 
> No, that's the 8052, the de luxe version.  The 8051 has 128 bytes of RAM...  
> 

I know, but actually most 8051 deratives are 8052's hence I wrote "average"

Regards,

Hans




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